Category Archives: silver age comics

this follows on from two topics covered earlier on this site on the subjects of painting over pencil artwork + changing what it originally would have communicated to the reader, + how a different artist can destroy someone’s great pencils … Continue reading →

hypothesis: the only silver age artist able to draw rear ends accurately was gene colan method: rigorously test this hypothesis by researching evidence against it (next five images (c) marvel comics, various dates in the 60s) giant man’s bum … Continue reading →

apropos of nothing: here is an image of bat hound (c) DC 1959 addendum oct 2017: apropos of something the previous article on this site included a discussion of black + white artwork + at the start of that … Continue reading →

both covers are reproduced below – the sky is magenta on one + red on the other. a brief check online suggests the magenta cover is the most common of the two this does not look like a printing error … Continue reading →

there is a genre in comics which may have started in the 40s with will eisner’s two part spirit story about a character called orang, who from memory was an ape whose mental processes had been enhanced so that he … Continue reading →

this post is hopefully going to get larger in the future as additional songs are identified ’96 tears’ by ? and the mysterios sounds like the obvious place to start as the band was named after two steve ditko characters … Continue reading →

2 does anyone know where ‘prisoner of the parakeets’ was originally published: it was reprinted in the last ever issue of strange adventures (# 244) with a new seventies cover. for anyone unfamiliar with the strip this is a story … Continue reading →